Definition of "unfavourable" adjective comparative more unfavourable , superlative most unfavourable
Not auspicious ; ill -boding . quotations examples
Quotations Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had , from the distress of the moment , been led to make Mr . Darcy acquainted with their fears for her sister ; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement , they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot .
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], page 148
Of a belief , state of mind , etc .: not favourable ; disapproving . quotations examples
Quotations [Y ]et the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies , by betraying her extremely unfavourable opinion of them , [...]
1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Maggie Tries to Run away from Her Shadow”, in The Mill on the Floss […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, book I (Boy and Girl), pages 208–209